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| ====== "Atlantis" series ====== | ====== "Atlantis" series ====== |
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| A loose series of novels and shorter works by Harry Turtledove]], set in a world where the OTL eastern seaboard of the [[offtopic:USA|United States]] (including the Appalachias) broke off from America in prehistoric times and became a small island continent more to the centre of the Atlantic Ocean. Once European colonists arrive, this land is dubbed "Atlantis". | A loose series of novels and shorter works by [[Harry Turtledove]], set in a world where the OTL eastern seaboard of the [[offtopic:USA|United States]] (including the Appalachias) broke off from America in prehistoric times and became a small island continent more to the centre of the Atlantic Ocean. Once European colonists arrive, this land is dubbed "Atlantis". |
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| The series has been criticised by the AH community for being occassionally a bit too parallelistic for its own good (a British colony created in Atlantis rebels in the 18th century and forms a vague United States analogue, there's a smaller-scale American Civil War analogue in the 19th century, etc.). However, it has also received a degree of praise for the better thought-out non-parallelistic aspects of its AH worldbuilding (the fauna and flora of Atlantis evolve in isolation and under evolutionary mechanisms similar to those of [[offtopic:New Zealand]], the geographic names and settlement of Atlantis is different to OTL and the colonising countries are often different too, including settlers descended from Basque fishermen, etc.). | The series has been criticised by the AH community for being occasionally a bit too parallelistic for its own good (a British colony created in Atlantis rebels in the 18th century and forms a vague United States analogue, there's a smaller-scale American Civil War analogue in the 19th century, etc.). However, it has also received a degree of praise for the better thought-out non-parallelistic aspects of its AH worldbuilding (the fauna and flora of Atlantis evolve in isolation and under evolutionary mechanisms similar to those of [[offtopic:New Zealand]], the geographic names and settlement of Atlantis is different to OTL and the colonising countries are often different too, including settlers descended from Basque fishermen, etc.). |
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